Decapitation on Greyhound Bus

[VitaminG]

This would be my luck.

As people are hauling ass for the exit, I reach for my gun. I point the gun at the subject and command him to stop. He continues to stab the victim, so I squeeze off a shot, killing him instantly. Once the police arrive, I'm taken into custody. I'm assured by the police department that everything is gonna be OK and that my actions were warranted.

Just as I breath a sigh of relief, the district attorney walks in and asks if I have a lawyer because I'm going to be charged with manslaughter. He says that even though many people would view my act as correct, even couragious, it would also be viewed as a vigilante act and therefore must be prosecuted.

So, I deplete my savings by hiring an attorney to keep my ass from doing "3 to 9" for manslaughter. While awaiting my court date, my employer decides that he doesn't need the publicity, so he cuts me loose. My wife is traumatized by the constant media attention, so she leaves me and files for divorce.

Finally, my day in court arrives and the judge decides that I should get one year of probation. My relief soon ends when I can't find a job, I have no money, and the ex even took the dog! That's when I decide to write a book about the whole ordeal. My publisher tells me that from preliminary reviews, it's gonna be a best seller. One week before she cuts me a check for $7 million, I'm diagnosed with ass cancer and given two weeks to live. When I look back, I should have taken a cab!

so riding Greyhound gives you ass cancer?! This is bad news for me - I'm on a Greyhound for 4 hours every day

[Joe_Steeler]

If Chuck Norris was a passenger on that bus, NONE of that bullshit would have happened and we would all be here still talking about Toejam's man rack.

[Bengal]

Well, I'll hazard a guess and say "because they had the good sense to get off the bus"

I see that point.

But wasn't there a few in this thread that said that was the wrong thing to do? They should have stormed back there with guns firing to save a guy that was dead already?

I seem to remember that but I'm too lazy to go back and look.

[Newc]

Well, I'll hazard a guess and say "because they had the good sense to get off the bus"

[Bengal]

And I will put this out there just being the Devils Advocate.

Who's to day these dudes didn't know eachother before they got on the bus? What if the dude that got killed had just killed this guys mother?

A stretch? Maybe but not a huge one.

So if that was the case, that would change the reason for this murder just a little bit, don't you think?

Is that something that an untrained but well armed milita will think of before pulling their guns and firing away? I doubt it.

I get it. Most people who buy guns want to use them. That would be like buying a Custom Shop Jackson but never playing it. So I get that people want to use their guns.

It's the wanting to use them against humans that I don't get.

[Bengal]

Because it is rare to actually catch someone in the act, and you would have addle-brained morons shooting each other on hearsay or for any reason under the sun - from halitosis to freckles.

However, with a busload of witnesses, there's no way it can be categorised as hearsay.

Newc,
But who's to say all those other people on the bus were not addle-brained morons? They were riding Greyhound after all.

[Newc]

Because it is rare to actually catch someone in the act, and you would have addle-brained morons shooting each other on hearsay or for any reason under the sun - from halitosis to freckles.

However, with a busload of witnesses, there's no way it can be categorised as hearsay.

[Bengal]

Why do we even have court systems? I mean really, wouldn't it be cheaper to just give everyone a gun at age 18 and let them be judge, jury and executioner? Save us a lot of money we could be sending to Saudi Arabia for more oil.

[Newc]

Nothing gives you the right to shoot another human being - everyone has the right to pursuit of happiness. Committing a crime does not forfeit that right.

Fortunately, some jurisdictions still see killing a murderer in the act of murdering as justifiable homicide.

And I don't think the Canadian Constitution guarantees the right to the pursuit of happiness, especially if it involves killing someone in their sleep for no other reason than to do it.

[Spivonious]

I'd rather be Arnold from Commando. Best 80s-style action movie ever.

[Bengal]

but I want to be John Fucking Wayne :ROTF:

Get in line. So does everyone else here.

I'd rather be Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson. They had more balls.

[Endrik]

And cut it out with the all the macho "I would have shot him" bullshit. We all know you'd be trying to get out of that bus as fast as possible.

but I want to be John Fucking Wayne :ROTF:

[Spivonious]

Again Mark?

You really need to learn. HA! Kidding there bro.

Yeah Mark, come on! We need another board-splitting argument.

[Bengal]

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Again Mark?

You really need to learn. HA! Kidding there bro.

[SEEGERMANY]

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